Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court
A Manitoba First Nations has declared a state of emergency in response to the ongoing health crisis impacting the community. The chief of Peguis First Nation, in Manitoba’s Interlake area, says the crisis is directly linked to devastating floods, the worst of which came in 2022....
Blimey! Is there anywhere left in New York where there isn't a protest?
Yesterday, hundreds of activists with Planet Over Profit blockaded the doors to Citibank, leaving thousands of bankers stranded in the street.
State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start
Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels – following the peak of current #ElNiño event at the start of 2024.
The past 10 months have all set new all-time monthly temperature records, though the margin by which new records have been set has fallen from around 0.3C last year to 0.1C over the first three months of 2024.
Chris Packham drops the mic hard on Tory Laura's show this morning ✊ 🌍
Luke Johnson on climate change: “Where’s the evidence that any of that is connected to carbon emissions?"
Chris Packham: “It doesn’t come from Toby Young’s Daily ‘Septic’ which is put together by those close to the FF industry, it comes from something called science"
Ukrainische Drohnenangriffe treffen die Hauptschlagader der russischen Wirtschaft. Die Folge: Russland muss die Ölproduktion in Raffinerien einschränken.
Herbe Verluste für Russland: Ukraine legt Putins Standbein lahm
Indigenous peoples and local communities are reporting a series of tangible and nuanced impacts of climate change, according to a new study. The study collected 1,661 firsthand reports of change in sites across all inhabited continents and aggregated the reports into 369 indicators of climate change impacts, including changes in...
"Dear friends, would you look, only look, at what is here, and would you agree to astonishment, and to love? For love, allied to attention, will be urgently needed in years to come."
from 'The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure', by Katherine Rundell
Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by record bleaching
> Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst #bleaching event on record, the country's reef authority reported on Wednesday (Apr 17).
"IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s #CoralReefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal #fish stocks. They have become #ZombieEcosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and 👉on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.👈 There will be remnants here and there, but the global coral reef ecosystem.."
The world is currently experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat, a US agency announced Monday.
Mali is among the countries currently suffering extreme heat with some areas hit by a temperature of 48,5°C, has recorded more than 100 deaths, victims of the heat wave. Malian meteorologists say the city Southwestern di Kayes recorded the hottest day in African history on April 4, 2024....
Some 540 Peguis First Nation residents still displaced after 2022 flooding (winnipeg.citynews.ca)
A Manitoba First Nations has declared a state of emergency in response to the ongoing health crisis impacting the community. The chief of Peguis First Nation, in Manitoba’s Interlake area, says the crisis is directly linked to devastating floods, the worst of which came in 2022....
In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change (news.mongabay.com)
Indigenous peoples and local communities are reporting a series of tangible and nuanced impacts of climate change, according to a new study. The study collected 1,661 firsthand reports of change in sites across all inhabited continents and aggregated the reports into 369 indicators of climate change impacts, including changes in...
Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Triggers 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event (www.sciencealert.com)
The world is currently experiencing its second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida teetering on the brink of disaster following months of record-breaking ocean heat, a US agency announced Monday.
Heat wave causes havoc in Mali, kills 100 people (africanperceptions.org)
Mali is among the countries currently suffering extreme heat with some areas hit by a temperature of 48,5°C, has recorded more than 100 deaths, victims of the heat wave. Malian meteorologists say the city Southwestern di Kayes recorded the hottest day in African history on April 4, 2024....